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THE POWER AND THE BEAUTY OF A FOCUSED LIFE
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One of the
things that I like so much about the Book of Proverbs is the ability of the
wisest man who ever lived,(I believe, apart from Christ), to give instructions
that can apply to everyone and anyone in spite of their age and time of
existence.
In the Book
of Proverbs chapter 4 generally and especially verses 20-27, we can read the
most profound instructions from a father to his son, on how to have a focused
and thereby a successful life.
Paying attention to
the word of God
In verse
20-22(AMP) of the Book of Proverbs, we read as follows:
“20 My son attend to my words;
consent and submit to my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from your
sight; keep them in the center of your heart.
22 For they are life to those who
find them, and healing to all their flesh”.
These three
verses of scripture bring out what I will call-the what, where, and the why, of
the word of God.
Concerning
the what, the wise man by the Holy Spirit tells you and I how precious the most
important commodity-ever is. Why do I call it a commodity, because the Bible
says-Buy the truth and sell it not!
And so He
instructs us to go for the most important thing and pay attention to it and
hear it all the time.
Concerning
the where of the word of God, He tells us to store it in our hearts or spirits.
The human spirit is the Centre of man, and the word of God is the raw material
for building up the human spirit. In the Book of Acts, we read, Acts chapter 20
and verse 32:
“32 And now brethren: I
commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up
and to give you an inheritance amongst them who are sanctified”.
So it takes
the word stored in your spirit, to build you up, but it also takes the word to
renew your mind. The Bible tells us in the Book of Romans chapter 12 and verses
1-2, that if your mind is not renewed, you will not know the different phases
or types of the will of God.
Lastly on
the instructions concerning the word, let us look at the why of the word of God:
verse 22 of the same scriptures tells us that the word of God gives life to
those who find it, and is medicine to all their flesh.
What does He
mean by the word of God giving life to those who find it? The word of God, is
anointed, the word of God carries creative and healing power. If the word of
God has the ability to create life, it sure has the ability to sustain life.
The Bible
tells us in the Book of John chapter 1 that the word of God was here right from
the beginning, and all things were made by him, without him was not anything
made that was made.
Jesus went
on and said, “The words that I speak to
you they are spirit and they are life”!
Therefore,
it is easy to see that the word of God is the giver and sustainer of all life!
Guarding your heart or
spirit against the interference of negative influences.
Again in the
next verse, which is verse 23, we read another very important instruction as
follows:
“23 Keep and guard your heart with
all vigilance, and above all that you guard, for out it flow the springs of
life”.
This
scripture is very important, the heart here refers to your spirit, and your
mind is the doorway to your spirit. Therefore whatever goes on in your mind,
affects your spirit because it will eventually find its way into that place if
care is not taken.
The mind is
the battleground; devils are able to insert things into your mind, if you let
them. They can suggest for you to go and sleep with someone not your spouse,
and if you are not careful, you will stomach it. They can tell you that you
will never be healed because God does not love you, and you will believe it.
These days, we are told that there are mind reading satellites, and occultism
has extended to the mind and is now wreaking havoc in many places.
Occult mind
readers are able to search out secrets and can harm you if you not grounded in
the word of God, based on the apparently true things that they can fling out
from your mind.
Avoiding the evil
tongues
As you
continue to read, He continues to instruct via the wise man in chapter4 and
verse 24:
“24 Put away from you false and
dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk, put far from you”.
I love the
way the King James Version of the Bible wrote this part, it tells you to put
away from you, the froward mouth and to stay away from perverse speech.
Now putting
the two scriptures together, it means to put away from you, in terms of either
you speaking falsely or in a dishonest manner, or you hearing it from somebody
else.
It equally means
that we should not allow those who speak foul and immoral language or talk to
hang around us speaking vile and foul things that will eventually find their
way into your heart or mine, and corrupt us or corrupt the anointing inside us.
The necessity: why you
ought to be focused, persistent and consistent.
The last
three verses from the eight verses of scripture mentioned above, lay emphasis
on why you and I should be focused in all that we do, let us look at them
(25-27):
“25 Let your eyes look right on [with
fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you.
26 Consider well the path of your
feet, and let your ways be established and ordered aright.
27 Turn not aside to the right hand
or to the left; remove your foot from evil”.
In life
there are many ways that the devil strives to distract us. The enemy comes from
or through our friends, as well as through our enemies, to throw things at us.
He never gives up on this. If you have never been fought left and right by the
wicked, in an effort to push you off from your divine destiny and purpose, you
will never know what am talking about.
If you have
not yet encountered people whom what they have can never be enough for them,
what things they have achieved in their lives are never enough for them, and
the devil tells them that unless they take away the one God gave you, they are
nothing. These are people some of who are in our churches, but they cannot
recognize the voice of the devil, neither can they discern that they are
deceived and going to hell because of their folly, are those you and I need to
be very careful with.
You and I
need to be careful how we let the devil talk to us or to our destiny through
them, because it matters who you listen to and respond to.
In another
important scripture, the wise man says to us: When sinners entice you, consent
thou not, that is in Proverbs chapter 1 and verse 10:
“1 My son, if sinners entice thee,
consent thou not”KJV.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
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| English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| William Blake - Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve - WGA02226 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!
Over two
thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah)
was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an
angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a
virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.
The prophets
of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the
name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the
book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts
chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as
follows:
22-For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto
you”.
God had
earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was
upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the
earth shall be blessed through his own seed.
Adam
disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the
earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a
matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows
it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling
the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before
Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely
defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire
universe.
Satan failed
in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven,
whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and
they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in
the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those
of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.
Then that
pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the
devil’s deceit
or his
antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That
was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah
chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:
23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it
was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24-I beheld the mountains and lo they
trembled and all the hills moved lightly.
25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no
man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled
26-I
beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.
God decided
to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath
of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam,
“Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship,
kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.
Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate
the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the
forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Satan who
came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now
going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of
the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals
among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and
nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.
Adam’s
mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which
include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness,
slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.
God was
disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and
did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him
redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.
One day He
saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in
the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name
of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from
amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he
obeyed.
This simple
act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was
on His way to restoring man’s lost
glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of
glory.
Then one
day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something
about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be
to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of
mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God
was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die
on the cross to take up to sins of the world.
God
therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the
mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember
that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later
gave him one.
Again this
Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to
offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no
previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before
could do this.
God then
preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.
And in the
book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,
16-“Now to Abram and
his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as
of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
This
anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing,
as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his
poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he
has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:
22- And the glory which
thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:
This Jesus,
our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a
son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving
spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have
life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to
him,
“though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.
Spiritual
death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because
Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow
them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.
We also are
now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for
all that you have done for us.
Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers,
the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high
places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus
and what he has come and already done!
We shall not
cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.
CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
|
| English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| William Blake - Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve - WGA02226 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!
Over two
thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah)
was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an
angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a
virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.
The prophets
of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the
name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the
book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts
chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as
follows:
22-For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto
you”.
God had
earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was
upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the
earth shall be blessed through his own seed.
Adam
disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the
earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a
matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows
it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling
the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before
Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely
defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire
universe.
Satan failed
in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven,
whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and
they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in
the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those
of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.
Then that
pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the
devil’s deceit
or his
antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That
was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah
chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:
23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it
was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24-I beheld the mountains and lo they
trembled and all the hills moved lightly.
25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no
man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled
26-I
beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.
God decided
to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath
of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam,
“Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship,
kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.
Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate
the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the
forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Satan who
came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now
going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of
the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals
among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and
nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.
Adam’s
mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which
include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness,
slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.
God was
disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and
did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him
redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.
One day He
saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in
the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name
of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from
amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he
obeyed.
This simple
act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was
on His way to restoring man’s lost
glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of
glory.
Then one
day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something
about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be
to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of
mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God
was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die
on the cross to take up to sins of the world.
God
therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the
mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember
that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later
gave him one.
Again this
Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to
offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no
previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before
could do this.
God then
preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.
And in the
book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,
16-“Now to Abram and
his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as
of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
This
anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing,
as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his
poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he
has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:
22- And the glory which
thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:
This Jesus,
our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a
son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving
spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have
life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to
him,
“though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.
Spiritual
death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because
Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow
them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.
We also are
now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for
all that you have done for us.
Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers,
the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high
places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus
and what he has come and already done!
We shall not
cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.
CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
|
| English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
|
| William Blake - Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve - WGA02226 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!
Over two
thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah)
was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an
angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a
virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.
The prophets
of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the
name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the
book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts
chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as
follows:
22-For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto
you”.
God had
earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was
upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the
earth shall be blessed through his own seed.
Adam
disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the
earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a
matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows
it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling
the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before
Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely
defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire
universe.
Satan failed
in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven,
whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and
they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in
the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those
of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.
Then that
pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the
devil’s deceit
or his
antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That
was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah
chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:
23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it
was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24-I beheld the mountains and lo they
trembled and all the hills moved lightly.
25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no
man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled
26-I
beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.
God decided
to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath
of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam,
“Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship,
kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.
Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate
the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the
forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Satan who
came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now
going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of
the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals
among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and
nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.
Adam’s
mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which
include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness,
slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.
God was
disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and
did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him
redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.
One day He
saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in
the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name
of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from
amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he
obeyed.
This simple
act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was
on His way to restoring man’s lost
glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of
glory.
Then one
day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something
about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be
to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of
mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God
was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die
on the cross to take up to sins of the world.
God
therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the
mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember
that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later
gave him one.
Again this
Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to
offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no
previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before
could do this.
God then
preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.
And in the
book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,
16-“Now to Abram and
his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as
of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
This
anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing,
as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his
poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he
has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:
22- And the glory which
thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:
This Jesus,
our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a
son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving
spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have
life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to
him,
“though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.
Spiritual
death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because
Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow
them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.
We also are
now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for
all that you have done for us.
Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers,
the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high
places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus
and what he has come and already done!
We shall not
cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.
CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
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| English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!
Over two
thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah)
was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an
angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a
virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.
The prophets
of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the
name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the
book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts
chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as
follows:
22-For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto
you”.
God had
earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was
upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the
earth shall be blessed through his own seed.
Adam
disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the
earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a
matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows
it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling
the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before
Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely
defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire
universe.
Satan failed
in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven,
whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and
they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in
the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those
of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.
Then that
pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the
devil’s deceit
or his
antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That
was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah
chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:
23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it
was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24-I beheld the mountains and lo they
trembled and all the hills moved lightly.
25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no
man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled
26-I
beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.
God decided
to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath
of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam,
“Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship,
kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.
Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate
the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the
forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Satan who
came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now
going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of
the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals
among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and
nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.
Adam’s
mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which
include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness,
slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.
God was
disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and
did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him
redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.
One day He
saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in
the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name
of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from
amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he
obeyed.
This simple
act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was
on His way to restoring man’s lost
glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of
glory.
Then one
day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something
about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be
to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of
mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God
was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die
on the cross to take up to sins of the world.
God
therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the
mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember
that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later
gave him one.
Again this
Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to
offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no
previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before
could do this.
God then
preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.
And in the
book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,
16-“Now to Abram and
his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as
of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
This
anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing,
as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his
poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he
has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:
22- And the glory which
thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:
This Jesus,
our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a
son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving
spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have
life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to
him,
“though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.
Spiritual
death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because
Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow
them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.
We also are
now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for
all that you have done for us.
Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers,
the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high
places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus
and what he has come and already done!
We shall not
cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.
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